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The collection of the
Reina Sofia Center for the Arts in Madrid has been replenished with several dozen works that are associated with Russian conceptual artists. According to the curator of the museum collection Salvador Nadales, the number of new works has almost reached 40, RIA Novosti reports.
He clarified that earlier in one of the largest museums of modern art there were several paintings by Kandinsky, a drawing by Malevich. The exhibition included a photograph of Vladimir Mayakovsky taken by Alexander Rodchenko, as well as several drawings by Natalia Goncharova.
Now the museum has acquired 34 artworks, four more were presented to it. This includes photographs of performances, video recordings and installations by Soviet nonconformist artists of the 1970-1980s. Salvador Nadales considers them to be very valuable, few of them have survived to this day.
One of the most interesting acquisitions of the museum employee called the audio installation "Composition of Music: Passport" by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. They organized the famous "bulldozer exhibition" and left the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Among the works there are photographs of the exhibition itself.
Another valuable acquisition is Irina Nakhova's video installation Room No.2, a recording of a conversation that took place in Moscow in 1985. Among the participants, besides Nakhova, one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism, Andrei Monastyrsky, and critic Joseph Backstein.
Art critic Margarita Tupitsyna-Masterkova donated four photographs to the museum showing performances by artists Mikhail Chernyshov and Nikita Alekseev. The museum is currently negotiating other acquisitions in this area. Soon, residents and guests of Madrid will be able to get acquainted with the novelties that are still at registration.
Russkiy Mir
